Topic: CHALLENGE 8/25/2008: View From A High Pla Posted: 25 August 2008 at 6:45am

CHALLENGE: View From A High Place

Challenge winner matt0 challenges you to pixel a scene as seen from a high vantage point. You can use any style and subject - realistic or abstract, sci-fi or fantasy, city or landscape... whatever strikes your fancy.

Thanks Frostpumpkin, that really helped I'm planning to finish this so no need to worry.

The shoulders may still be too big... Anything in need of fixing? I've started working with shadings now and I'll be sketching that left hand to look somewhat "cool" or interesting next. Now it's just hanging there for nothing.

Omg, you rotated it :D I tried that at early phase and noticed it looked terrible. I'm working on it the way it is because it's a pain to do it "upside down" like in the one you posted. It's kind of weird how terrbile a picture can look upside down compared to the original one o___O

Working on the floor:

It's midnight here, need to wake up at 6:20 to make it in time to school... I quess that's how far I got today with it.

JinnDEvil: Your entry is starting to look really good :O Can't wait to see the final one.

My initial ideas for improvement have to do with atmospheric perspective. I think you need push the things that are farther away from us more away. By that I mean lower the saturation and brightness of those back mountains, and even the ones in the middle of the picture. Same goes for the grass/plains you have, you've got them slightly darker in the back but maybe push it more.

In general I also think more variations will help make things look like they've got natural color and form. Change a few of the grays in the buildings, tint them a different color or something, same goes for the mountains or maybe they're sand dunes? If you can pull out more character from these desolate things, the composition will be much more attractive.

Hope that helps somewhat.

*edit* I also think a more definitive light source will help. And this may be picky but to me, the buildings in the dome fit too perfectly within it. Especially the center one, it's like all the way at the top. I think having buildings that aren't so uniform in size according to the dome would be more interesting... maybe cut them out and move them around a little to test it out.

Frostpumpkin, I think you should keep them. It gives kind of depth to the picture. It could be something else too, not only similiar looking tower though... But it looks really good so far

Too many people pointed out the mistakes in the work so I had to flip it and rework it this way. I liked it as it was before too but this isn't bad either. It's just annoying to remove somethign you thought you had already done quite well Oh well, I'll get over it and start working with the picture by checking it on both ways every once in a while. Thanks for the tips so far, they've been a great help!

And Blaze, don't stop to post your WIPs! o.oI want to know how it is going! ^^

Okay, blame Jinn if you don't like my WIP postings

That wall is going to be a real pain... Don't have any good ideas for texture and plain wall is simply awful. I'm thinking of some kind of wallpaper for background with some posters.

And then there's the hair too I'll probably go with the animestyle since I really have no intentions to use my whole freetime of the week for this. Some amy hate it but it's lot more better than it's now.

Comments are really welcome although I won't be doing any drastic changes on it.

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